Is Your Waste Management System An Infection Control Risk?
Does your Facility Look Like This?
Stationery bins and cabinets that do not undergo scheduled washing and sanitizing are a source of microbial growth and pathogen transfer. A facility whose medical waste bins failed multiple surface-microbial count tests with its highest ATP count of 14,844, far exceeding safe levels, transitioned to the Daniels Medismart.
- The Daniels Medismart was robotically washed and sanitized after every exchange.
- The 6-stage washing and decontamination protocols exceeded CDC requirements by 4 times
- The Medismart was subjected to the same ATP testing and passed with unprecedented low microbial count
Enhancing Infection Control with Waste Management
Who would have thought that in 2020 infection control would become one of the most commonly search google terms across a global landscape. Where “sanitizing” your hands would become the norm in all social settings outside of a hospital, and where the cleanliness of a clinical environment would be escalated to one of the top risk management priorities of every patient care facility in the world.
Through this same infection control lens, we look at current medical waste management challenges in patient-care settings:
- Medical Waste Bins in patient rooms – who cleans the bins?
- Reg bag removal, manual cardbox box assembly, direct contact with disposed medical waste
- Hand “touch” of medical bin lids to open or close
- Punctured bags or cardboard boxes causing spillage in clinical areas
- Direct ground contamination with containers being moved between the loading dock and clinical areas
We need to break the chain of infection by eliminating medical waste “touches”
Learn How we can Eliminate Contamination
Daniels Medismart
Daniels’ touchless medical waste bin has redefined contamination-free waste disposal in hospitals, pharmacies, and patient care environments.
THE MEDISMART REDUCES CROSS-CONTAMINATION RISK BY…
- Touchless. Contactless. Mobile and Foot pedal-operated
- Zero cross-contamination with “floor-resistant” design
- Robotically sanitized to a 6log bacterial load kill
Explore Contamination-Free Waste Management.
To learn more about modern waste containment that supports infection control, view our medical waste containers here. OR… if you’re interested in understanding how Daniels Health could transform your healthcare waste management processes, book some time in with one of our specialists – we would love to understand your safety, infection control, and environmental goals.
Partnering with Daniels delivers clinical outcomes
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Clinically designed waste containers
Designed with clinicians to achieve the highest standard of functionality, safety and cleanliness, all waste containers are designed with inbuilt safety locks, overfill protection and hands-free use.
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Reduced Medical Waste Costs
Through waste segregation programs, clinically differentiated containers, and clinically focused education, we deliver effective diversion of waste and reduced medical waste disposal spending.
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Reduction in Needlestick Injuries
Daniels’ industry-leading Sharpsmart sharps container has proven to reduce needlestick injuries by up to 87% with superior inbuilt safety features, overfill protection, and restricted hand access.
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Clinically Educated Staff
Our services are supported within the four walls of healthcare with a robust and intuitive education program that drives safe clinical disposal, effective waste segregation, and reduced costs.
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Reduced Patient Interruptions
Providing mobile medical waste disposal solutions that enable sharps and medical waste segregation at the patient bedside, eliminates cleaners and EVS staff interrupting patients to exchange bins.
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Robotic Container Sanitization
Our robotic washing process achieves a bacterial load reduction 4 times the level required by the CDC, each container is robotic washed after every fill, reducing infection transfer risk.
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Eliminating multiple touches of waste
No bag tying, no box assembly, no decanting or consolidation of waste from patient-room bins. Our solutions dramatically reduce the number of touches of waste throughout a healthcare facility.
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Elimination of Plastic bags
Reusable waste containers eliminate plastic bags, cardboard boxes, and the infection transfer risks associated with tying and assembly. It’s a risk and environmental no-brainer!
Brands we partner with
We are proud to have been chosen by over 8,200 US facilities as a vendor of choice for healthcare waste services, including our very first customer that we signed 22 years ago! Here are some of the brands we protect
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